'Reef Balls' Enable Loved Ones' Remains to Sleep With the Fishes Associated Press Sep 25, 2004 OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) - As if shooting a loved one's ashes into space or pressing them into artificial diamonds were not sufficiently offbeat, relatives of the deceased now can have their ashes mixed into concrete to help form ocean habitats. A Georgia company has placed about 200 of the concrete cones, called "reef balls," in the ocean, mostly along the Gulf Coast. Last week, it interred cones filled with the ashes of several people about seven miles off the shore as part of...